Communications of the ACM
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October 2022
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
A Computer Scientist is Named a 2022 MacArthur Fellow
The MacArthur Foundation recently announced its 2022 MacArthur Fellows – 25 individuals whose achievements show “new modes of activism, artistic practice, and citizen science. They are excavators uncovering what has been overlooked…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Arecibo Will not be Rebuilt
I had an involvement with data from Arecibo, sad to see this go. Are we getting data from China? Much more detail at the li
Space scientists lament loss, say it won't be the same without actual working instruments
By…From The Eponymous Pickle
Fast and Scalable Search of Images
Image Search has many useful applications, notably health care
By Mahmoud Ghorbel- October 14, 2022 in MarktechPost…From insideHPC
Inspur Information Shows Open Compute Project Technology at 2022 OCP Global Summit
SAN JOSE, October 19, 2022 – IT infrastructure company Inspur Information announced today it is showcasing four recently Open Compute Project (OCP) certified systems at the 2022 OCP Global Summit being held October 18-20, 2022…
From insideHPC
CIQ Collaborates with the OpenRadioss Community to Containerize the Code with Apptainer
RENO, Nev. — October 18, 2022 — CIQ, the company building the next generation of software infrastructure for enterprises running data-intensive workloads atop the Rocky Linux enterprise Linux distribution, announced it has containerized…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Engineering with Paise
AI Engineering in Germany
Welcome to the competence center for AI engineering!
Making artificial intelligence manageable and usable for engineers
The Karlsruhe Competence Center for AI Engineering creates the connection between…From The Eponymous Pickle
Thinking Deep Learning
Deep Learning is Human
ACM NEWS
Deep Learning is Human, Through and Through, By Bennie Mols
Commissioned by CACM Staff, October 18, 2022
It was 10 years ago, in 2012, that deep learning made its breakthrough, when an innovative algorithm…From The Eponymous Pickle
Assessing the Quantum-Computing Landscape
Good thoughts
Assessing the Quantum-Computing Landscape
By Advait Deshpande
Communications of the ACM, October 2022, Vol. 65 No. 10, Pages 57-65
10.1145/3524109
An emerging discourse in both popular and academic literature now exists…From Schneier on Security
Museum Security
Interesting interview:
Banks don’t take millions of dollars and put them in plastic bags and hang them on the wall so everybody can walk right up to them. But we do basically the same thing in museums and hang the assets right…From insideHPC
It Wasn’t Easy Getting to Exascale Day with an Exascale System
Finally, after 15-plus years of intellectual strain (planning), bureaucratic wrangling (budgeting), technical toil (system building) and, probably, some tears, the HPC community has arrived at an Exascale Day, October 18 (1018)…
From insideHPC
LBNL’s Dr. Horst Simon Named Director of Abu Dhabi Investment Authroity Lab for Computational Sciences
Abu Dhabi, UAE – 18 October 2022 — Dr. Horst Simon, formerly of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has been named director of the newly launched Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) Lab. The lab is an independent research…
From insideHPC
Verne Global and Ficolo Collaborate on Northern European Data Center Platform
18 October 2022 – LONDON – Verne Global, provider of sustainable data center solutions for high intensity computing, has announced that Ficolo Oy, which operates three sustainable-powered data centers in Finland, will now operate…
From insideHPC
Oracle and NVIDIA Partner on Enterprise AI Adoption
October 18, 2022 — Oracle and NVIDIA today announced a multi-year partnership to bring the NVIDIA accelerated computing stack — from GPUs to systems to software — to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to deliver accelerated computing…
From insideHPC
Supermicro Extends Server Solutions to Include OCP Technologies
SAN JOSE, Oct. 18, 2022 — Supermicro (NASDAQ: SMCI), a solution provider for cloud, AI/ML, storage, and 5G/edge, announced expanded adoption of open hardware and open source technologies into the Supermicro server portfolio.
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fusion Reactor Funding
Next Steps?
US Dept of Energy injects more particles of cash into tokamak fusion reactors
The funding will continue, until the atoms fuse
Brandon Vigliarolo in TheRegister
Mon 17 Oct 2022 // 18:45 UTC
The US Department of Energy…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Upcoming Virtual CCC Workshop: Building Resilience to Climate Driven Extreme Events with Computing Innovations: A Convergence Accelerator Workshop
On November 10, 2022 from 12:00-3:00pm EST, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is hosting a virtual workshop sponsored by the National Science Foundation’s Convergence Accelerator program. This workshop will be the second…
From BLOG@CACM
Data Loss Prevention vs. Data-Centric Audit and Protection: What Is the Difference?
A look at the typical tasks solved by DCAP systems, and how they differ from those solved by DLP systems.
From The Eponymous Pickle
[Book Review] A Behavioral Science Road Map for Marketers
Was asked to comment on this, here is a review, taking a look.
[Book Review] A Behavioral Science Road Map for Marketers in Customerthink
David Dodd -October 17, 2022
Data science and behavioral science have emerged as the…From The Eponymous Pickle
Global Economics Intelligence Executive Summary
Things are tightening. From McKinsey:
Global Economics Intelligence executive summary, September 2022
October 11, 2022 | Article
Central banks sustain aggressive policy tightening; industrial activity picks up in emerging economies…From insideHPC
Advancing HPC through oneAPI Heterogeneous Programming in Academia & Research
oneAPI offers an open industry effort supported by over 100 organizations. oneAPI is an open, unified, cross-architecture programming model for CPUs and accelerator architectures (GPUs, FPGAs, and others). Based on standards,…
From The Eponymous Pickle
'Digital Mask' Could Protect Patients' Privacy in Medical Records
A pragmatic means for assuring privacy?
'Digital Mask' Could Protect Patients' Privacy in Medical Records
University of Cambridge (U.K.)
Craig Brierley, September 15, 2022
U.K. and Chinese researchers have created a "digital mask"…From insideHPC
A Look Inside the AMD-HPE Blade that Drives Frontier, the World’s First Exascale Supercomputer
[SPONSORED CONTENT] The new number 1 supercomputer in the world, the AMD-powered and HPE-built Frontier, is celebrated today, Exascale Day, as the world’s first exascale (a billion billion calculations per second) HPC system…
From BLOG@CACM
Data Governance and the Psychology of Tension Management
The balancing of the chaos of no data tension and too much tension on data assets is what data governance frameworks and processes attempt to manage.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Suing for Surveillance
See also with further comment in Schneier:
Journalist Sues Predator Spyware Maker for Allegedly Helping Government Surveil Him
A Greek financial journalist is one of several who believe they have been targeted for surveillance…From Schneier on Security
Qatar Spyware
Everyone visiting Qatar for the World Cup needs to install spyware on their phone.
Everyone travelling to Qatar during the football World Cup will be asked to download two apps called Ehteraz and Hayya.
Briefly, Ehteraz is an…From insideHPC
Rolls-Royce and Classiq Collaborate on Quantum Algorithm for Computational Fluid Dynamics
TEL-AVIV – Oct. 18 – Quantum software company Classiq today announced it is working with Rolls-Royce to implement novel computational fluid dynamics algorithm dealing with heavy, complex numerical simulations of fluid and gas…
From Computational Complexity
BYTE LYNX- an awesome video game/Am I an influencer?
Tucker Bane is a friend of mine who has an AWESOME video game available
that is called BYTE LYNX.
I am curious- Can I be an INFLUENCER!
Lets find out!
At the link below there are
a) Reviews of the game.
b) Videos of the game beingc)…From insideHPC
Lockheed Martin, Ayar Labs Partner on Microchip Connectivity for Sensory Systems
BETHESDA, Md. and SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Lockheed Martin, (NYSE: LMT) and Ayar Labs, a leader in chip-to-chip optical connectivity, today announced a strategic collaboration to develop future sensory platforms that leverage Ayar…
From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: UC Berkeley’s and LBNL’s Kathy Yelick on Exascale, the Future of Supercomputing, Partitioned Global Address Space and Diversity in HPC
Today, on the eve of Exascale Day, the @HPCpodcast is delighted to have Kathy Yelick as our special guest to observe Oct. 18 (1018 – a billion billion calculations per second). Dr. Yelick is the Robert S. Pepper Distinguished…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Welcome to our new ACM-W Website Manager!
Chandra Burnham is our new ACM-W Website Manager, effective September 2022. Chandra is a full-stack software engineer at JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Seattle, Washington. She completed her Bachelors of Science in Computer Science…